Google Single Sign-On

Google has made it incredibly simple to run your business in the cloud – whether you’re checking emails, sharing documents or creating your next presentation. At Xero we share this passion to be able to do business wherever you are.

To streamline your online experience even more, we’ve taken it to the next stage.

If you have a Google Apps login, all you need to do is add Xero from the Google Marketplace. Now instead of having to login to Google and Xero separately, you can navigate seamlessly between the two without having to log in twice (single sign-on or SSO in techie speak) – how convenient and simple is that?

@Shawn, we believe people will use both Google Docs and Office 365. Most accountants will need the rich document management features of Office 365 but that does not rule out using Google Docs for collaboration. So we’ll continue to work with both Google and Microsoft.

Will you be looking at using your current google apps integration to sync contacts? So that any contacts created in Google contacts sync to Xero and vice versa? Once the sync is in place, the service could be used to push contact data to other devices such as an iPhone. Allowing the phone to auto detect incoming calls against stored contacts.
Would also allow google apps to act as a central sync point for contacts and subsequent additions of services such as mail chimp.

Integration with Google contacts…. Yes please! As a service industry, being able to enter the data into xero and have all up to date customer lists displayed on google maps has massive potential ie. identifying hot spots, demographics, and using this data for marketing.